R. D. Laing
R. D. Laing
Ronald David Laing, usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness – in particular, the experience of psychosis. Laing's views on the causes and treatment of serious mental dysfunction, greatly influenced by existential philosophy, ran counter to the psychiatric orthodoxy of the day by taking the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of lived experience rather than simply as symptoms of some separate or underlying disorder. Laing was...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 October 1927
R. D. Laing quotes about
insanity independence perfectly-natural
Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.
enlightenment psychological breakthrough
Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.
break-through diversity needs
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
vacuums
No one acts or experiences in a vacuum...
ridiculous feels
I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not.